A manifestation of such differences is the fact that the editors of this collection of essays by feminists from around the world come from separate dis- ciplines: the one from literary and cultural studies, the other from sociology and politics. [...] A third suggestion, indeed a counter-sugges- tion to the second, refuses the binary of local and global, and proposes instead the usefulness of thinking in terms of local and global, and proposes instead the usefulness of thinking in terms of interested universalisms. [...] Rather than reinforcing disciplinary boundaries, this book is organised around a number of key questions: the nature of the intersection of race and ethnicity; the dilemma of appropriation and who is permitted to speak on behalf of whom; what makes a position or voice authentic, particularly in terms of minority claims; what are the structures of legitimation operating in relation to minorities; t [...] Cultural difference is to be found where the 'loss' of meaning enters, as a cutting edge, into the representation of the fullness of the demands of culture. [...] On the one hand we had the love-hate relation- ship with the monuments of British literature and on the other the need to separate from the paternal figure and assert Australian independence.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 305.42/01
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781459319202 9781895686272
- LCCN
- HQ1190
- LCCN Item number
- F44 1993eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaNSHD
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xxv, 254 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00214624 (OCoLC)226375902 (CaOOCEL)412716
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Feminism & politics of difference Politics of difference
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Illustrations 8
- Acknowledgments 9
- Contributors 10
- Introduction 14
- 1 Feminism and the politics of irreducible differences: Multiculturalism/ethnicity/race 28
- 2 'Feminisms, reading, postmodernisms': Rethinking complicity 47
- 3 'Authentic voice': Anti-racist politics in Canadian feminist publishing and literary production 62
- 4 Pretty deadly tidda business 88
- 5 'Love me tender, love me true, never let me go . . .': A Sri Lankan reading of Tracey Moffatt's Night Cries—A Rural Tragedy 100
- 6 Changing contexts: Globalization, migration and feminism in New Zealand 112
- 7 Colonizing women: The maternal body and empire 130
- 8 Timing differences and investing in futures in multicultural (women's) writing 155
- 9 Of black angels and melancholy lovers: Ethnicity and writing in Canada 170
- 10 All-owning spectatorship 184
- 11 Little girls were little boys: Displaced femininity in the representation of homosexuality in Japanese girls' comics 204
- 12 Sexism, racism and Canadian nationalism 224
- 13 Slash and suture: Post/colonialism in 'Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza" 239
- 14 Voice and representation in the politics of difference 255
- Index 273
- A 273
- B 274
- C 274
- D 275
- E 275
- F 276
- G 276
- H 276
- I 277
- J 277
- K 277
- L 277
- M 277
- N 278
- O 279
- P 279
- Q 280
- R 280
- S 280
- T 281
- U 281
- V 281
- W 281
- Y 281
